WINNER TAKES ALL is a suspense thriller with medical elements, second in a series featuring Rick Parker.
Parker is a recently minted bounty hunter who used to be a practicing physician. The first of the series, WIN OR GO HOME, details how he left his old calling and makes a spectacular debut after a somewhat rocky start to bounty hunting.
In WINNER TAKES ALL, Parker pursues a bail fugitive into rural Washington only to learn that his target has been murdered. Or has he? It seems that he was half of a set of identical twins, separated at birth and until recently unaware of the other's existence. Both independently became criminals, specializing in confidence scams. Now one has become a killer. The question is: which is Cain and which is Abel.
Parker's competition happens to be a beautiful private investigator hired by the other twin's spouse after he emptied her bank account of millions of dollars. One of the two pursuers is going to come away empty handed. Can they learn to cooperat...